strange charm (1)

Letra

[Hank: Good morning John. I can already hear the music building up beneath me so I should probably just stop talking. This song is about quarks, I wrote it, it’s called Strange Charm.]

A quark is a fundamental constituent of matter

Observed in nineteen sixty eight through deep elastic scatter

We found that protons aren’t as simple as we thought

We thought they were solid particles but they are not

Protons are in fact made up of three separate pieces

It just gets more confusing as our knowledge increases

But that is what a quark is, it’s a piece of a proton

And they also make up other things including the neutron

Oh up, down, strange, charm, top, bottom,

If you don’t know what a quark is it don’t matter you still got em

And with leptons and bosons unless something’s amiss

They make up everything that we can see and that we know exists

Things made up of quarks including protons and neutrons

Are composite particles that Physicists call hadrons

Many types of hadrons are theoretically described

But most only exist for very brief amounts of time

Quarks have electric charge, color charge, mass and spin

And having color charge means they exist solely in-

side of other kinds of particles and cannot exist alone

Which is why quarks have never been studied on their own

Up, down, strange charm, top, bottom,

If you don’t know what a quark is it don’t matter you still got 'em

And with leptons and bosons unless something’s amiss

They make up everything that we can see and that we know exists

Quarks can join together in two different ways

Baryons and Mesons, but most instantly decay

If a particle has three quarks, then it’s a baryon

And if there’s one quark and an anti-quark, then it is a meson

These tiny bits of matter are part of almost everything

And there is no unified theory to make it less confusing

But the fact that we’ve identified that they exist at all

Is so God damn remarkable that I just sit in awe

Oh up, down, strange charm, top, bottom,

If you don’t know what a quark is it don’t matter you still got 'em

And with leptons and bosons unless something’s amiss

They make up everything that we can see and that we know exists.

[Hank: I like that song, that’s a good song. I hope that you all enjoy it too. And you can listen to it anytime by going to dft.ba/quarks. And that’s possible because my friend Sam and my friend Allen worked their butts off to create dft.ba, a URL shortening service that reminds you and all the people you tweet to to not forget to be awesome. So yes, you can have your own dft.ba URLs right now all you have to do is go to dft.ba. It’s very exciting! It’s just one more way that nerfighteria is taking over the internet. John, don’t forget to be awesome, and I will see you on Friday.]